Ponte Buarque de Macedo, Road bridge in central Recife, Brazil.

Ponte Buarque de Macedo is a road bridge spanning roughly 288 meters across the Capibaribe River, connecting the Recife and Santo Antonio neighborhoods. The structure carries both vehicle and pedestrian traffic and forms a major north-south axis through the city center.

A wooden provisional bridge was built in 1845. Under Minister Buarque de Macedo and engineer Alfredo Lisboa, work on a new bridge began in 1882 and it opened to the public on 20 October 1890, bearing the minister's name. In 1923 the firm Isaac Gondim & Odebrecht rebuilt it in reinforced concrete, as a plaque at the Praça da República end records.

The bridge serves as a daily crossing point between two key city neighborhoods and has shaped the riverfront landscape for generations. It functions as a natural gathering point and landmark where thousands of people and vehicles pass through each day.

The bridge is easy to reach on foot and is well accessible from both sides, with wide pedestrian paths alongside the vehicle lanes. The river below offers viewing points from the waterfront if you have time to spare.

A plaque at the bridgehead by Praça da República records that the bridge was rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1923 by the firm Isaac Gondim & Odebrecht. Isaac Gondim commissioned a painting from Mário Nunes for the inauguration of the concrete bridge.